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I have felt close to having to admit myself before but I managed to pull myself through that day.
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I haven’t, but that has become one of my obsessions. It scares me that I may have to one day.
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I have been hospitalized twice in 2007 at Austin state hospital in Texas. They didn't treat the OCD it was a living hell. I was in panic mode. If you feel the need for hospitalization you need to find a place that's OCD smart to get treatment you need. Use your support team and family to make the right choice travel may be involved you will have to think under intense pressure when OCD in intense. You don't want to go to a place where you get ware housed best wishes for anybody in this situation
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Yes, I have been. My anxiety got to the point where I could no longer function.
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I was admitted due to my thoughts, I wanted to commit suicide
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@mark, you perfectly sum up my own experience. Unfortunately when I was hospitalized no one recognized it was OCD. That really made things worse for me in the long run. Additionally, mental health and addiction are all part of my obsessions, so when I was in a community mental health facility it was incredibly triggering and I was getting worse rather than better, resulting in a very long inpatient stay. There are hospitals that treat just OCD. I know of two in New England and LA also has one.
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@anxiousashley, I have no idea where you live but you could do some research to see if there are other programs, which I’m sure there are. From what I have learned about the hospital in Boston, it is covered by insurance and they look into all of that stuff for you before admitting you.
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Yes it was pretty bad
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I have, just wondering how many ppl had to go the that as well
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Thank you all for sharing. I’m currently terrified of having to go back to the hospital. And yes it’s so true all the hospitals I’ve been in don’t treat OCD. It’s just generic group therapy. I’ve never been to a hospital that treats OCD
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I wish I had the money and lived close to one so I could go
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Same here
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It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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I started dealing with OCD when I became fixated on health issues, particularly the fear of contracting a life-threatening disease. If I experienced any kind of medical symptom, no matter how small, that even remotely hinted at something potentially fatal, it would drive me crazy, and I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. Then one day, I started having intrusive thoughts about accidentally hitting someone with my car, and I would end up driving in circles to check if I had. Eventually, I found myself overwhelmed by a flood of new obsessive thoughts and compulsions. One day, while I was at the park, a squirrel came near me, and for some reason, I felt like it attacked me. I Googled it and learned that squirrels could carry rabies, which spiraled me into a deep fear of rabies. I became consumed with the thought I received a bite from a squirrel, raccoon, or bat any time I’m in areas that trigger me. It started off only being inside then transferred to even being in my own home. This made me obsess over every physical sensation in my body, compulsively checking to make sure nothing was wrong. One compulsion that I hated the most would to be putting rubbing alcohol on me to make sure that I had no open wounds. Every day feels like I’m walking around in a fog of anxiety, constantly worrying that I won’t even make it to old age. Sometimes, it gets so overwhelming that I just want it all to end. It stresses me so bad at times to where my brain feels like I’ve been studying all day.
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Recently, I’ve been struggling a ton with what I eat/put into my body? I’m a first year college student with a few different health issues (including IBS), and lately it’s been hard for me to find food on campus that doesn’t upset my stomach. I also have pretty severe emetophobia, and feel extremely anxious when I feel sick. The ironic thing is that being anxious makes me feel even worse, so I end up sticking myself in an impossible loophole. My OCD has taken hold of these fears over the past few months, and it’s been such a struggle. Especially since people have been getting food poisoning from various dining halls on my campus lately. My OCD has gotten so bad that sometimes I’m too afraid to eat food other than what I buy myself. I feel so trapped. I don’t want my OCD to affect my physical health or prevent me from eating, bc I love eating!! It’s the fear of getting sick that’s the problem. And it’s even harder when everything is so unfamiliar. Just wondering if anyone could relate. Advice is appreciated!
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